If it was easy, it would have been done by now,” said Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a center-right think tank.
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He added, “The two main tenets of Trump’s economic outlook are first to essentially build an economic wall around America with steep tariffs and deportations and second to essentially use the levers of government for significant new special interest carves-outs to buy off different constituencies and allies.
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